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Provides a new Create GUID command in the Tools menu with a new WPF surface, and featuring code tailored for C# and VB.NET developers to define Guid fields. Also provides editor inline code completions for adding GUIDs, guid fields and guid attributes for C# and VB.NET!

The first release of LibreSSL portable has been released. LibreSSL can be found in the LibreSSL directory of your favorite OpenBSD mirror.

http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL has it, and other mirrors will soon.

libressl-2.0.0.tar.gz has been tested to build on various versions of Linux, Solaris, Mac OSX, and FreeBSD.

This is intended as an initial release to allow the community to start using and providing feedback. We will be adding support for other platforms as time and resources permit.

It's not the first port out; but may be the first that's safe to use. Most (all?) of the 3rd party attempts ended up with security problems from replacing BSD OS/library functions with replacements that didn't have the same built in security constraints. (ex Zeroize functions that weren't marked to prevent the compiler from optimizing them away, and functions that were vulnerable to timing attacks instead of being constant time.)

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. AdamsYou must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von BraunOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. AdamsYou must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von BraunOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

In defense of neither of Kent's posts, both InfoQ and SDTimes so called "articles" were nothing but drivel. One reduced it to PHBspeak; the second changed a few words around in the Visual Studio Blog post[^] making it less clear and with a copied content level so high that it would bend the needle on my plagerism-meter if I was foolish enough to try measuring it. In both cases the site in question lived down to the wretched clickbait farm standards I've come to expect from them.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

When Microsoft and Google are in the headlines, it is usually related to one of the companies tossing a bit of mud at the other in an attempt to make one look superior. Not today, though, as the two juggernauts are putting down their swords to work together to bring more open source projects to Azure.

It will probably be lost in the back pages, after talk of cancelled Garth Brooks concerts and potential line-ups for the losers play off of the world cup, but quietly the most amazing thing the human species has ever done is done...

It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. At 08:35 a.m. it is 27% complete installing updates. At 11:32 a.m. it runs out of disk space and blue screens.

Oh a panacea! i just love a good panacea when I can get one.
Remember the Segue scooter? It was going to be IT. Now you can barely find a place to buy one.
Delve... is Bing... is Live Search... is Windows Search...is DOS Find /i "delve" *.iniFrom the article

Delve uses "machine learning" and artificial intelligence to show you the documents, messages, and people you don't know you need to see. Microsoft describes it as:

Delve highlights key information of interest to you, based on what you are working on and the actions of people in your network.
Every large software company has only been promising that since the Unix Epoch!

With companies operating 24x7 and employees increasingly working from mobile devices, the pressure on IT staff to stay in touch even when they are on vacation is becoming almost an unspoken requirement.

"It's these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes, nothing remains quite the same"

You haven't worked with many small companies have you? In many cases they simply cannot afford skill overlap.

At any rate, being available within reason during vacation isn't a problem for me. I understand why it is for some and I think management and employees just have to expectations set. For instance, when I'm with my daughter the freaking company better be at a stand still if you bother me. Otherwise, I make myself available for at least advice on how to handle something. I avoid logging in do things, but I plan for that possibility.

I worked for five different small companies (in four sectors), in ten years.

tgrt wrote:

In many cases they simply cannot afford skill overlap.

Here we strongly disagree; you better prepare to have someone ready to take over each and every line that dev wrote, 'cause he/she may not be there in a week. Accidents, career-switches or even falling in love - people are not constants.

I've never had anyone call during a holiday. Not even whilst working for an industry that worked night-shifts.

tgrt wrote:

At any rate, being available within reason during vacation isn't a problem for me.

Nor is it for me, but I'd be billing each hour as a regular working-hour

tgrt wrote:

and employees just have to expectations set

Ehr, my expectations are realistic. Unless you pay for it, you bug me not. If that is not sufficient, then I suggest you adjust your expectations until it is.

Programmers in search of some higher wisdom in pursuit of better code need not trek to a temple atop a Tibetan mountain. A new Zen-like GitHub repository possesses the proverbial enlightenment you seek.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt